Patrick E. Hobbs

Professor of Law
SETON HALL LAW SCHOOL


(973) 642-8750
 
 
Biography & Scholarship
Biography
Presentations
Curriculum Vitae
Courses & Syllabi
Taxation
Business Planning
Law & Literature
Biography
 

Dean Patrick E. Hobbs joined the faculty of Seton Hall Law School in 1990. He teaches in the area of taxation and has taught Federal Income Taxation, Corporate Taxation and Business Planning, and Law and Literature. In 1995, he became the Associate Dean for Finance. In 1999, he became the Law School's seventh Dean.

Dean Hobbs graduated magna cum laude from Seton Hall University with a B.S. in Accounting. He received his J.D. from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, and earned his LL.M. from New York University. Dean Hobbs was recently appointed a Commissioner on the New Jersey State Commission of Investigation by former Governor James McGreevy. He is a member of the Standards Review Committee of the American Bar Association, Section of Legal Education and Admissions to the Bar, and has twice chaired the Law School Development Committee. He also serves as a member of the boards of the Newark Alliance, Lexis-Nexis, Newark Beth Israel Medical Center, the New Jersey Commission of Professionalism and the New Jersey Institute for Continuing Legal Education. In 2004, he served as Chair of the Newark, New Jersey Mayor's Blue Ribbon Commission on the Downtown Core Redevelopment .
 
Publications
 
Articles
 

ISTANBUL REDUX: Guidelines for Quality Legal Education Across the Globe, 43 South Texas Law Review 727 (2002)

Noblesse Oblige: Four Ways the “Top Five” Law Schools Can Improve Legal Education, 33 The University of Toledo Law Review 85 (2001)

The Personal Injury Exclusion: Congress Gets Physical But Leaves The Exclusion Emotionally Distressed, 76 NEBRASKA LAW REVIEW 51 (1997)

Entity Classification: The Hundred Year Debate, 44 CATHOLIC LAW REVIEW 437 (1995)

The Scope of the Inventory Exclusion under Section 1221(1), THE MONTHLY DIGEST OF TAX ARTICLES 35 (1994)

The Scope of the Inventory Exclusion under I.R.C. Section 1221(1): Is It a Broad Exclusion That Should Be Narrowly Construed or a Narrow Exclusion That Should Be Broadly Construed or Is It Just an Illusion?, 26 LOYOLA OF LOS ANGELES LAW REVIEW 289 (1993)
 
Presentations
 

Downtown Core Project: More than an Arena, Regional Business Partnership - Newark Insiders Forum, October 2004

Mayor's Blue Ribbon Advisory Commission - Report on the Downtown Core Redevelopment (2004)

How Law Schools are Preparing Their Students for Business Law Practice, Luncheon Speaker, 3rd Annual Business Law Symposium, October 2002

Training the Gen-X Lawyer, New Jersey State Bar Association -- Annual Meeting, May 2002

The 21st Century Law School, Leadership Newark, September 2000

Conference on Diversity, New Jersey State Bar Association, April 1997

The Flat Tax Forum, Moderator and Panelist, Seton Hall Law School, April 1996

International Tax Policy Seminar, Panelist, Seton Hall Law School, August 1994

Preemptory Challenges--Should They Be Abolished/Are They Discriminatory?  Moderator, Seton Hall Law School, October 1994